Experiencing psychological trauma during childhood and/or adolescence is associated with
an increased risk of psychosis in adulthood. However, we lack a clear knowledge of how …

Resting state networks (RSNs) are thought to reflect the intrinsic functional connectivity of
brain regions. Alterations to RSNs have been proposed to underpin various kinds of …

Background Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric
disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding …

In recent years, empirical data and theoretical accounts relating to the relationship between
childhood victimization and psychotic experiences have accumulated. Much of this work has …

This paper presents an outline of voice-hearing phenomenology in the context of
evolutionary mechanisms for self-and social-monitoring. Special attention is given to …

The gold-standard cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for psychosis offers at best modest
effects. With advances in technology, virtual reality (VR) therapies for auditory verbal …

Bereaved people often report having sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the
deceased (SED), and there is an ongoing debate over whether SED are associated with …

It is not only unclear why hallucinations in schizophrenia occur with different prevalence by
modality, but also to what extent they do. Reliable prevalence estimates of hallucinations by …

Objective Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH s) are core features of psychotic illness and
remain significant in predicting poor outcome and risk. There has been a wide range of …

Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) and dissociative disorders (DDs) are described in
the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and …